Subject: Re: Giving up on the evil 486... :/
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/16/1997 13:31:00
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
> On 9/15/97 at 9:36 PM -0400, you wrote:
>
> > Suggestions:
> >
> > 1. Downgrade to NetBSD-1.1. 1.2 has always been a bit of trouble for me.
>
> Is it possible to do this with a single floppy drive? When I snagged 1.2.1,
> I ended up not trying it, because it required one more floppy drive than I
> possessed. :)
>
Yup - at least since 1.0 its been possible with a single floppy -
you just swap disks when prompted :)
>
> > 2. Boot with the 1.2G install kernel, rm -rf your kernel source, sup fresh,
> > build and try that kernel.
>
> Gaak... I can't manage to get files copied onto the hard drive without
> serious errors, and thus haven't fully installed the comp package yet. I
> think I'll look at 1.1 first, to see if I can shoehorn it in... :)
Urk.. good luck! What did your other motherboards give (just in
case its a problem with the other hw)